I donn’d a wig and whiskers, changed my name,

And open’d, two streets off, another shop,

Another shop awaits me now no more—

The Finish of my Race arrived, I see;

On a Walk-over though I won before,

This time I’m done, and Luck walks over me.

Diogenes. 1853.

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Elegy.

Written in a Railway Station.